Horry news. (Conwayboro, S.C.) 1869-1877, September 15, 1871, Image 1

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'?ejillv trnvfllod through some of the j , v V . j Agricultural regions of New Jersey i UK . ; Y T r> ! and Pennsylvania, 1 must confess to * having felt a degree .of painful morti- J # tioation on coming South, to note the j very striking contrast between the L' condition of the farms, an-J the appear- J anco of the crops in the two sections of the country. There the farms were {tilled, WON eared tor, and divided into four parts, viz: wheat, hay, corn, and : pasture for stock. Corn, the only crop requiring any .considerable labor, oc- ' 'Ciipying generally not more than one V fourth the farm, but producing from forty to eighty bushels per aero, while j several farms in Virginia ami in our State, especudly this side the Xeuse river, as seen from the railroad, with , s .every evidence.orf neglect, u nth rift, and poverty, would not produce mo-e than four or five btis.hels to the aero; aud i some as many acres to the bushel. It ^ seems unaccountable that people could . 4)0 so infatuated as to waste seed corn ! p on such land in ks present condition r . which will not ret urn the seed planted; ^ for to my certain knowledge some of ^ those fields have not produced crops worth .cult ivating for lo these many vj years, and arc getting worse all the -f time, for thom? is the exhaust toil si/sf,v /dm, that is to take off the .laud .all it C<f produces without .reluming any thing1 L to it, till it censes to produce even crab i J grass; they then clear up nnothet piece ! m of land and go fr.njpi generat ion to gen- ; I oration through the same process with | tthe same results. Now if the ui.fortunate owuers or tenants of such farms, if they cannot afford to buy fertiliser*, would go in good faith to work and gather out o.f the woods, swamps or branches, mould, mud, ieaves or any .other form of decayed or decaying | vegetable matter (if they have no hot^ ter material) and enrich one acre, if no more, and make it produce more than ten acres in their present state, which can easily be done, there might bo ?omc hope for them even in this life; if not, for limes {ire changed, the only al- j -ternativo for them is either to starve ! or steal; 8ta?Vi i g ia no Wller'than it j should he, and stealing not wit list ami- i ing it has become more leM^ee-tahlc j than formerly^ yet it can he carried on to advantage only by government ollioials and others in outhontv., so eitlicr way it is better, cheaper, more ooMfifdrtable and niorp reliable to manure ilicir farms than resort to either of the -other alternatives. As kxt-Fahmku. Miscellaneous. ^ J* The Jury I.HW. The following is froin the Rcaufo.it JlnpnbtituLn. It is condemnation mild Jy $ut: Outside of the general election law, there is not one so open to criticism and abuse, as that relating to the drawing of Juries. In one sense it gives the Jury Commissioners a peculiar discrimination, by selecting such 'as they fhay think well qualified to serve a*jurors" and in so doing, they are at liberty to think what t hey 'please, and select a set of men who are as in? noceil^f alphabetical knowledge or /jhirogrnphy as If they were inhabitants of some yet undiscovered country.-This is all wrong. A juror has more flower than the Judge on the bench? the life of some human being is entrust t'd to his most solemn ami sacred ilk* deliberation. Yet if he bare not witb 5n him the elements of knowledge to iw. pee and comprehend the mass of evi- | I deuce given hint upon which to form I hV^licf, who would carc io trusty, their oraec in his hands. Admitting * W x ^ \ HQ I VOL-3. CON 11> 111 the ton-man ot' the jury is eompc. tent, it renders the case mu?'h the wortic, iur tlio leaning of the jury will very nfiiur.illy l?e xrurpod l?y -the opinion of sueli an olli.ee r, l>e it for or '.MraiitKi iustU-e. The most competent. o .? . we don't say educated, men should ho chosen?men of intelligence, capable of sifting a grain ot truth fiom a mountain of ernxr. The present Grand Jury if* a remarkable instance of this indiscriminate selection. Nine out o( the twelve cannet read nor write. As nn illustration of their ignorance we have only to cite one case. In examining the hooks of the County Commissioners, they openod them, their faces beaming with the wisdom of a ! sage, commenced deliberately <o turn 1 the leaves, and running their lingers over the, to them, hieroglyphic scrawls, giving now and then a satisfactory grunt, and upon reaching the end ol | said record, they were informed that they had .opened the books upside down, and in their rustic simplicity they flattered themselves that in them was eoncontrateu me vision o; an Argus? and that if there were error* they t-liould doled them. What room is then* for comment ? or rather what an opportunity to rebuke the ignorant legislature for passing such laws. We are not looking vor perfection in our jury system, nor do we approve of excluding the colored ? there are intelligent men in their ranks, let them he mixed any way you please, hut give us reason, in telligcnee and justice JPrwtcKt. (/ Ii A iti.kston, September V.?T wenty-six of the most prominent citizens of Spartanburg count y, including the I'nited States -Commissioner; the I lifted States Assessor, probata Judge, Sheriff, Clerk of Court, and the county liepre&entntivcs in both branches of tl*c Legislature, pu LUshcd over their own signatures the following letter: Sraut,\n ul" tt<i, September 4.?lion. Jehu Scoff, Chairman J\u lylux. c.O))i mittco.: We, the ttnd'V^igr.ed, citizens SImIo nin'l v Itnvinrr urirm ? ? ;i through I ho newspnpeYs that you had received statements .and affidavits that outrages upon various citizens had been committed in this county since the committee, of w hich you are chair man, left the said county, and that you had thereupon recommended the declaration of martial law in this county, we feci coiatiaiucd to ltfake the following statement. We have made diligent inquiry, and have been unable to bear of a single out rage having been committed in this county since your committee left, and on the contrary it is in a state of profound peace and qoici. The Spartan county newspaper in publishing the above says: "This statement ought to be sufficient to prove to the mSlid of fccnator i V been imposed eaw glass 'I IN NR tio08 and K'*to manfounds il? V* ro&?!lC?eS~ HED **UJFF pieiidcui^ ( C11C('? ready p*v that mania,- of, ?|| county. Purtinvif n.vbyN ft A lcadlrtg J Judicata he.^oi. Jl? the way 01 nut rag.) l.a* orcurod i.;1VxclEg!'^ since ilie Ku Klux Committee ..;.wc here." * Km-dHiHHkeN in llio IT. P. Eighteen years after the pilgrim fathers landed on Plymouth Pock they experienced their first Now England earthquake. This was iu 1688, and was very severe, so much so as to throw persons to the ground. Since it oc(Mined, dowj) to the year 1850, one hundred add forty-nine earthquakes are registered as having been ex peri-' i . i . ' * oneea jo loose j&astern ntar.es, 01 wnu-D 10 happened in the Winter, J6 in/he Spring, 32 in snrnffter and 40 in Autumn, while of 16 the year only is stated. Nearly twice as many have 0centred in Winter and Autumn as in Spring and suminer. In these cooler latitudes the RoveroRt earthquakes take place in e.ooi or cold weather/ a rule that in tropica! countries' is reversed. The shock of November IB, 18?2, was very severe. "Let t)U| shuck he repeated," writes W, T. "Brigharn, 'hind half Boston would he destroyed and the loss o! life would he terrible." U came near being rep' .ted October 20, 1870. aid for" V^7{ik nnlt 1 i^clpliia have nature and m ktho clrcuia tion V V f year. % f ^RY .A n Xiiclepor WAYBOltO, S. C., Fit; never exnerieneed one of these conv*jl 1 sions in any dftmtidcrnble degree of i severity. lJut the sites of Montreal, I Quebec, Cincinnati and Chicago have in time jmst been shaken. The extraordinary visitation of the Winter-of 1808 convulsed all Canada in a most surprising manner. It lasted si< niin, utes and shook down mountains, turn I od the course of rivers, and made havoc of the whole land. In the valley of ; the Mississippi, the first shock on record is set down for 1 V70. Others oo eurred in 1791, 1795 and 1700. Then in 1801 one took place near the site oi Chicago, and of such severity that J should it be repeated the city would suffer terribly. In J 811, November 10, began an earthquake of which a writer in the Atlantic says:?"Since human history began, the earth has rarely been shaken by a more tremendous convulsion." Its repetition would endanger the safety of all.our Western cities. Some writer affirms it to have been as severe as the great shock that destroyed Lisbon in 18?5. The seat of the disturbance wasatXcw Madrid, fifty miles below the mouth of the Ohio river. I lore, from November 15 to December 28, -ov-er sixty-seven shocks I .wore counted; then the enumerator ceased counting for very weariness of tlie trembling task. At Cincinnati, over one hundred shock were counted. At Columbia, S. C,, plaster /ell Irom the ceilings while the bells af Charleston were rung by the rocking steeples. Washington was alarmed by the seismic throbs. On the Mississippi vaUley, the ground rose and sank in awful waves, and split, into chasms one or two hundred feet in depth. This remarkable earthquake reached from the Kooky Mountains to the Atlantic ocean. a Wonderful IUiviiIiik Well ? Wlicrt* llie t in1 CoihcH l>oi??/ rH?e Louisville Courier Journal gives an account of a wonderful burning well in Lincoln county, in thai State, some six miles east of Crab Orchard, at the base of the Cumberland mountains, on the banks of a small stream .called I)ix river. The water in this well is in a A/Mwt nitt dI nt a / k 1 itikiillit 11 i??l lotrv i t v \;iini iiii u nan ui tuui m iwii^ ain.i larly every day, between 1 and 5 o'clock in lbe afternoon, overflows. A large quantity of gas is liberated, said to be carburetted hydrogen gas, to which a light being fipplioYl, a flame 80mA+*ffie8 ton or tilteen feet in height, results. The JourmVi tells tbe following story in connection with the well. In the earlier part of the present century^ wben Kentucky, and especially the mountain districts, were but sparse ly settled, a man by the name of Shanks owned this portion of Line In county in which the well is situated. At that time all the salt used in the State had to be brought from Louisville^ or imfrom Virginia at very large ex^ ^ Vr days of stage coaches W PAIL 0 wagons. Mr. Shanks wstHkckivki) AT saljL-?nJlis 1;ln(1i an(1 *"l38i?nS?t lowe?to?l,l,,io^V' l'<>'hP' .1''' 1liy /bors r *HHHK bv Idling \ ,, V He to Swam j* h J' it f?>1^^^^^^R(>sc J^ers, out .oo.U^M^k,. 4. * pricel^^^^^Bc for your- ^ ^|||||||^t ~Wh into ? |S UP"aidS qUlt^a i shaft we jH _ /h ignited the air bjVKitOUND \\ ^na\sci\l>froro ? t,n' ^ftrj y ^ .JJthe undevMy ehort -^E i ^ cvcJ1 tiJC i growth, vhoW irtucd one surface ol 'jBjjjjo TTflowed out broad sheet J* TjU'd f?r lli(> WJth the &a4^R Wl^j? s^cC I tutors was niM J^ry ro\ntl j era) stamye-K * abouy mjultedy I #xs had been us good us Jiis \sTe ^ia<^ f'orC(f clear through iwft^jl, and his neighbors tied from the vicinity as from a pestilence, leaving growing crops, hhuses, property of all sorts behind in the general terror. Alter a" lapse of years the vicinity was ngain set (led, but the well uow inspires woniUir in place of (lie pristine fright. A condensed wj>hjJk>sophy of farmi ing"--Keed your land t>e<?ore it is hun; gry ; rest it before it is weary ; and 1 weed it before it is foul, ,w% I inly 21, \ - JlrtBfliiiii NE" ' ulorit Journal. f DAY, SEPT EM HE It i: r.li.|? u ilBi liatl A man named George Troupe has just made as decided a failure in an attempt to play the part of Flija a?was ever made before. Thirteen days ago, when Mr. Jas. Atkinson re-opened his wheelright shop, he told Troupe, who had been living with him for the last twenty years, that he wanted lutn to go to work again, hut Troupe responded that he had promised the Lord not to work for man any moie, and that the Lord had promised to provide for him, and dressing himself in the clothes he usually wore on Sundays, bid Mr. Atkinson's family good bye and walked out, taking with him however, nothing except the clothes on his person. From this time, nothing was heard from him until Into yesterday evening, when a grave digger named Waddoy informed Mr. Atkinson that he had found him lying in the Presbyterian hurrying ground starved almost to death -and so weak that he co hi not crawl to tire spring. Mr. A. at once went to his reliel and brought him back again to his'houso, and under the kind and attentive treatment he is receiving there, he will probably soon recover his strength. 1L" had been where he was found for the last t wclvc days, during which time he had eaten two peaches and a pear, but the crows, though they flow over him regularly every morning and evening, never once brought "him any hr/ad or flesh.?,l&a\ Gaztdc, The \\ :ix itlyrilc. Miss S., of St. Louis, writes us that she once rend in an old hook of travels an account of a remarkable tallow tw>" growing about Mobile, and a Hording candles for the natives. Not ba\ ing seen any mention of it by later authors, she concludes the whole thine must be u myth, sun she thought no harm ronlii ooniu ot dropping us a line to ask if wo bad any knowledge of such .tallow tree. Wo suppose tlie tallow tree roforrc 1 to, with some little exaggeration perhaps, must have been our wax myrtle, an evergreen shrub or small tree which grows abundantly all over North Carolina. It has, thickly set along its slender brancblets, thousands of whitish berries about the si/.e of pop-corn grains, which upon close examination prove to be nothing more or less than little balls of wax with one seed iu the centre of each. These berries arc somct imcs galhei od and put into boiling water, when the wax leaves them and 5oat.es to the surface, the seeds sinking to the hot torn. In this way it maybe gathered in considerable quant it ies, and it is occasion ally moulded into beautiful candles ol a reddish eollor ; so, you see, the story of the old traveller is not altogether a myth; after all. We have three varieties of the wax myrtle in the South: one a lar<*<? shrub * ' O or small treo ; a smaller variet y from two to four feet high, and a still smaller variety from one to two fowl high. The two varieties first named are generally to be met with in wet plftces, while the last on the list is a native of our dry and sandy pine barrens. y\ll produce wav in abundance, and of precisely the same character.?Journal of A>jrictdiure. Nkw On lean's Si nki.no.-The Picaof the iiOth ult. sas s: For some thirty or forty days past the batture in front of the Bazaar market mid Red Stores has been gradually sinking, until to-day, just below the Red Stores, it is seven foot below the ordinary level, ami the settlement varies from three to seven feet. The length of Failure, which has thus sunk, is about seven hundred and fifty feet, and the width o;ia hundred and twenty, and there is no tolling wlicn it will stop. '1 lie City Surveyor has made borings, to inveaUgato the strata, with a view to the construction of a work that will prevent any further sink ago, bet has not been able to tin J any strata sufHciently lirui to guarantee the permanence .of any work. At a f!cpth of fifty feet nothing more stable was fouiul than sand, with a very slight mixture of elav, and just now the surveyor is in a ijuaodary as to what i* best to bo done. At intervals in the past, the battnre in this vicinity has sunk in the same Way, but not to such an extent, tnc f * " ? IfHtlrttm ws. '>,1871. NO. :}(>. j ' t fflT'atOSt SUlkjlL'O. \V?' hl'linvo I.??! ?.t.*_ .-I J ? - ? toro, being not exceeding tivo fort. ^ ' -T o The present Kink is not in the water, i but inside of the wai ves, etc., on the j space over which the roads of the Poiitohartrain and Chattanooga 1 Jailroad Companies pass. These companies have been com pull eel to till ?;p as I the ground gave way, and will probably have to keep tilling for some time o conic. Mn. Jfiiome K. Stouks tells us of a , very strange discovery he made on his plantation a few days ago. For souie time past be had noticed a very great diminution in the supply of milk tiirnished by bis cows. On making inquiry into the cause, of the woman who had charge of the cows, she accounted for it bv statiner i Imt. il?i? mill. ? ? " ?*" sucked from the cows by a litter ol I?iucs that stayed at night in the same yard in which the cows were kept. This improbable story only lived dqepor in his mind the suspicion that the women was using the milk lor her own purposes. She persisting, though, in her story, ho went to his cow lot early in .-the morning, and there lie found the cows lying quietly on their sides, and the pigs tugging away for their breakfast. Afterwards, when tbc cows were stamping up, he saw the pigs running around ami under them, jumping up, and doing all they .could to reach the teats, Those pigs, that had been forced to learn, so early, the lesson of "root, hog, or die," had lost their maternal progenitor at an early day. If any County has any smarter pigs than these, trot 'em out. X 'In >lrr It I'/inrh r. A Fish Mvstkky at Council Bluffs.? A fish mystery is troubling Council BinOs. Spoon Fake, a placid ulinnl. r>f u> >*i>v ...i.. wmx w n v i *mu mat iviVA ^ liltn never been known to contain fish "to extent" until recently, when its waters not only swarmed with myriads of linny monsters, but the surrounding shores arc alive with fish. They have' come in such enormous numbers that the waves wash them high and dry on the shore where they lie knee deep, dead and putrefying. The fish trade in Omaha and Council HI lifts has become prodigious. The fish seem to be greatly astonished at their new surroundings, and stick their heads from the water and open their mouths, as if they wanted air. A little boy takes a flat board and wades into the water, and in ten minutes throws out as many lisb as a wagon can carry, varying in weight from two to five pounds.People who have lived in the neighbor hood for years declared the phenomenon unprecedented, and various wild theories are put forth in explication. The prevalent belief is that the swarm came into the lake by a subterranean passage, during a late stoun, while a few venerable observers contend that the Missouri overflowed its hanks and flooded the lake with catfish and perch. A Night's Uicst at A Fashion-ai m; ' Watkmno Placis.?The Huston Com mctcial Iiullctui prints this programme of a night's "rest" at a fashionable watering place. Furnished by elderly party occupying apartment on large corridor over hotel dry.whig-room.? Size of apartment, ten feet square.? Number of rooms 011 corridor, thirty or forty. Ventilators open for air and the admission of sound. I 9 I', M.?-CojmmcncimeHi of music ^ by full band for Grand I lop in drawing-room below. 10.t ? 12?Continuation of ditto. :l to 1^ A. >L?Just one more last dance. J \ to 2/? Adjournment retiring den/CersXo corridor;extemporaneous walu es?screams--?gigglings-?leavc-tak ing? :ui(l dooi?~slammiugH. to 0?Serenade by young gentlemen who do not understand the difference between a howl and a ?<>ng, and are more familiar with the hotel bar lhau one in music. 3 to ?Collection of boots by porter. 4?Calling of party who are to go on a fishing excursion. 4i--Calling of passengers for the early train. 5?Audiblo dropping ol boaU at all lite doors by porter. , 51?Departure of stage load of passengers for early train?cracking of V 1 u' r X ADVERTISEMENTS Inserted lit 91.00 per <MjiuJre forflrit, auJ liny eont* for ju'h subsequent insertion. "V Starring notices frco. \ Deaths mill Funeral notieus froe. Obituaries of oiim square -fteo; over one square ohai'Keil at a?lvertwoln^ Ktfi. ltcllgious unties of ?"C sqri?#, free. A square rij;lit lines or lens, oft >i& .sue typo. A liberal ilivouut will Ihj iq % lo to ilu?tvr* mIiom1 u<hi'i tiHcmcntfl are ki j?t iu for a tern* of three inortks or longer. whips?shouts to horses*?Gauging tri trunks flown stairs,<&0. 0 to 01,?General stir of servants coming down and gettr.ig things to rights for the day. 7?First gong lor breaklast. i bo tliNtakr. A correspondent of the Ltnnhe. villr (X. .1.) lleacon says, a short lime since, while staying at the borongh of 11., lie overheard the following, which he thinks too good to he lost : A number of politicians, aM r/f whom wore seeking olHce under the Govern? ment, were seated under n tavern porch, when an old toper named Joel 1)., a person who was very loquacious when corned, but exactly opposite when > sober, said that he would tell them a story. They told him to "fire away," where upon he spoke as follows : A certain kir.g--I dont't recollect his name?had a philosopher upon w hose judgment he always depended. Now it happened one day that the king took it into his head to go hunting, and summoned his nobles, and making the necessary preparations, lie summoned the philosopher, and asked him it it would rain. The philosopher told him it would not, and they started. While journeying along they met a countryman mounted on a jackass. lie advised them to return, "for," said he, "it will certainly rain." They smiled contemptuously upon him, and the.n passed on. Heforc they had gone many miles, however, they hod reason to regret not having taken the rustic's advice, as a shower coming up-drench- ? ed .them to the nkio When lhcy"'iu?d returned to the palace, the king reprimanded the philosopher severely. "I met a countryman," said he, "u.nd he knows a great deal more than you. lie told me it would rain, whereas you twld me it would not.'" The. king then gave him his walking papers ai d sent for the countryman., who soon made his appearance. "Tell me," said the king, "how you knew it would rain," "I did not know," wiid the rustic, "my jackass told me so." "And how, pray, did ho tell you V* asked Che king. "I?y pricking up his ears, your Majesty," said the malic. m i... i ;? - i jiv> n?i;u HIT couiivry Hlitll-a WA | and j? roc mi ni* the jackass of him, ho placed him?thejaokur.s?in the oilice 1110 philosopher lilleil. "Ami here," oh,served .loci, looking very wise, "is where the king made n great mi-striked' "I low so ?" inquired the auditors. "Wiry, ever since that time," said Joel, with a grin on his phi/., "every jackass wants oflico." Spain ani? Son ru I'auomna.?Tlu\t sterling paper, the New York Journal of ('omujerce, call attention to the fact that while Spain, "before the throes of revolution httvo entirely subsided," is proclaiming an amnesty for all politic.!; * oih nces; (leneiftl Grant is fulminating a now hull ag inst South Carolina. Six years ha.vo passed in this model country since the civil war ended, and this province of South Carolina has been fairly peeled by Federal legislation, and yd the employment of the .. implements of torture proceeds. A carpet-bag gov?rno?\ a negro legislature?emancipation, negro suffrage, negro rule, taxation, the absolute extiiugnh hment of the power of the white race, are not enough. Six years after Gen. Johnston's surrender they proclaim martial law instead of amnesty, and continue to devote that. State mid the other Southern Stalce. to the eause of making political capital for the party in iKtriSOKsimi of'f lirt tinvoriiiM/ini yv/. ? WoiMi u .you woi tn Risk.?Richard ( Burke being found in a reverie, sfiortlv aflcran extraordinary display of powers in the House of Commons by his brothor Kdiuutid,nod questioned by Mr. M;iloue as to t lio cause. "I have been wondering how Xcd has contrived to nio> nopoli/o all the talents of the family, but then again I re member, when we woiv at play he was always at work." The force of t he anecdote is increased byM-Ini fact .that Uiebard Burke wa? not'Vnti.?sideied inferior in natural talents to las more distinguished brothers Yet tUe oik* iwr to greatness, \\di#e the other died comparatively ^oscuro. Doii't trust to your genius^dung mi u, if yoi* w utd use j but work !! work I , / r . 9 . mJi mwm fflHHmB r - - * JSWBBBWflli